Makefiles should make fewer assumptions about what directories exist.

[TravisWhitaker]

Specifically /usr/local.

[harlanhaskins]

which is your friend

[TravisWhitaker]

Specifically I had in mind always calling mkdir with -p, i.e. the libflipper makefile expects /usr/local, /usr/local/include, etc. to exist.

[Mikejmoffitt]

More importantly, the makefile should segregate the build and install steps.

[TravisWhitaker]

The one's I've run seem to do that (not that I've looked too closely). Do you have an example of make install building something (or vice versa)?

[Mikejmoffitt]

Almost everything I have built has the actual build target(s) be prerequisites for an install target. It follows that the process has resembled something like this: make sudo make install

or

make su -c "make install"

This removes the need to have ownership of the directory it's installed in. In my experience of building libflipper, I had to own /usr/local/flipper (or wherever it was) as the install process wasn't separate from the build process.

[TravisWhitaker]

The makefiles I've used from this repository have the behavior you describe. Do you have an example of one that doesn't behave that way?

[Mikejmoffitt]

It looks like the libflipper makefile has changed some since I had last used it. The issue may be resolved.

[TravisWhitaker]

Well, my original issue still stands.

[georgemorgan]

Fixed this by requiring users to specify PREFIX= before compilation.

[TravisWhitaker]

LGTM.